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Posted by: Ruth Levush
Law Library report on "Legal Treatment of Unaccompanied Minors" Published. It provides information on the laws that apply to the protection and restrictions on eligibility for asylum for unaccompanied minors.
Posted in: Collections, Global Law, Law Library, Legal Reports
Posted by: Alea Al-Aghbari
The following is a guest post by Louis Myers, a legal reference librarian at the Law Library of Congress. Louis has authored several blog posts for In Custodia Legis, including New Acquisition: The Trial of Governor Picton, A Case of Torture in Trinidad, Indigenous Law Research Strategies: Settlement Acts, Looking into the Past: Space Telescopes and the Law of …
Posted in: Collections, Global Law, Law Library, Legal Reports
Posted by: Jenny Gesley
This FALQ post gives an overview of the ICC, the Rome Statute, the crimes that can be tried, and examples of recent cases.
Posted in: Frequently Asked Legal Questions (FALQ), Global Law, Guest Post, In the News
Posted by: Jennifer Davis
On March 30, 2023, the Vatican issued a joint statement repudiating the “doctrine of discovery” and terra nullius. The doctrine of discovery was used as the legal foundation for taking the land of Indigenous people by Europeans, and for the establishment of residential schools; as Justice Marshall wrote, “The European governments asserted the exclusive right …
Posted in: Collections, In the News, Law Library, Native Americans
Posted by: Jennifer González
Our summer 2023 Creative Digital Publications project teaches students to write articles for potential publication on this blog. Read for a description of the project and the people in two of our groups.
Posted in: Interview, Law Library
Posted by: Stephen Mayeaux
The Law Library is happy to announce that our collection of legacy and contemporary reports has grown to over 4,000. This summer, we plan to announce a new update to our crowdsourcing campaign, with the release of several hundred additional digitized reports that were published over the last couple years and which would benefit greatly from volunteer transcriptions to help ensure accurate full-text searchability of our collection.
Posted in: Collections, Global Law, Law Library, Legal Reports
Posted by: Kelly Goles
Join legal research analyst Iana Fremer on May 18 at 2:00pm for a Foreign and Comparative Law Webinar on E-Governance and E-Voting in the Baltic States.
Posted in: Education, Global Law, Guest Post, Law Library
Posted by: Jennifer González
One of our spring 2023 projects is working on the foreign legal gazettes. This is a description of the project and the volunteers and interns that are making it happen.
Posted in: Interview, Law Library
Posted by: Jenny Gesley
The blog post recounts the history of international women's day with a particular focus on Germany. It surveys legislation and progress on gender equality in Germany and the European Union.
Posted in: Global Law, In the News, Women's History